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My family isn't posh they're musicians.

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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South Haven
Michigan
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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
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When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.
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I feel that I an everything to her.
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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
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I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say I'm sorry until it is as meaningless air.
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When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.
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I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved
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The cure might be worse than the problem
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...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare
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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
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When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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There's always world enough and time.
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But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.
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Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.
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Everything seems simple until you think about it.
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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.
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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.
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